Historical Period – 18th Century – The Digital Library of Liberty & Power

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No.	Author	Nationality	School	Period	Works
1	Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)	English	Philosophic Radicals	18th Century	1
2	William Blackstone (1723-1780)	English		18th Century	1
3	Edmund Burke (1711-1776)	Irish		18th Century	1
4	Richard Cantillon (1680s-1734)	Irish		18th Century	2
5	Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714-1780)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
6	Condorcet (1743-1794)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	2
7	Adam Ferguson (1723-1797)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
8	Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	2
9	William Godwin (1756-1836)	English		18th Century	1
10	Thomas Gordon (1691–1750)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	8
11	Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
12	Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)	American		18th Century	1
13	Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	2
14	David Hume (1711-1776)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	3
15	Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
16	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	1
17	Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821)	English		18th Century	1
18	John Millar (1735-1801)	Scottish	Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	1
19	Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689-1755)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	1
20	Thomas Paine (1737-1809)	English		18th Century	3
21	Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)	English		18th Century	1
22	François Quesnay (1694-1774)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
23	Joseph Ritson (1752-1803)	English		18th Century	1
24	Lemercier de la Rivière (1719-1801)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
25	Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)	German	German Enlightenment	18th Century	1
26	Adam Smith (1723-1790)	Scottish	Classical School, Scottish Enlightenment	18th Century	5
27	John Toland (1670-1722)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	1
28	John Trenchard (1662-1723)	English	Commonwealthmen	18th Century	4
29	Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781)	French	Physiocrats	18th Century	1
30	Voltaire (1694-1778)	French	French Enlightenment	18th Century	4
31	William Wollaston (1660-1724)	English		18th Century	1
32	Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)	English		18th Century	2